Word: intentionalism
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...much. It has died down somewhat after 20 years. What we wanted to do is to have people have serious discussions and debates about this subject which a lot of people feel uncomfortable about. That was the intent from the beginning...
...What I've said is consistently anything in life can happen. It is absolutely not my intent, not my goal and not my aim. All these people who make these grand plans are very much confused about the way life really works." -On a potential run for President (ABC News, April...
...force itself to the top of Obama's agenda, the North has resorted to just about every nasty tactic short of war - testing both a long-range rocket and a nuclear bomb, arresting two American journalists and sentencing them to harsh prison terms. With such provocations, North Korea seems intent on establishing that it is more dangerous than ever. Kim Jong Un is at least part of the reason...
...officials have the same apprehension: that political uncertainty in the North, coupled with a military establishment intent on maintaining its pre-eminence, is a combustible combination. The North has 13,000 artillery tubes trained on South Korea, and the two sides have had two minor naval confrontations in the past 10 years. "Anytime you have a combination of this behavior of doing provocative things in order to excite a response - plus succession questions - you have a potentially dangerous mix," said U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in a recent speech...
...days later, a policeman was killed in Craigavon, County Armagh - the first police officer to be shot dead in the province in 12 years. And a series of low-level disturbances in April - petrol bombs, hoax devices, car-jackings - showed that dissident republicans, although small in number, remained intent on disrupting life in post-conflict Northern Ireland...